658157 - window.onpopstate should be called on page load

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[zhouyanming]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.767.1 Safari/534.36
Build Identifier: 4.0.1

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63040

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

This behavior is intentional; see [1] (which came after the bug you cited):

> Don’t always fire a popstate event right after the load event.
> Instead, only fire it during real session history transitions (i.e., when the 
> user clicks Back or Forward or when history.back()/forward()/go() is called)

The spec may not have been updated to reflect this change, although my understanding was that we all agreed to adopt this convention.

[1] http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/03/history-api-changes-in-firefox-4/

Comment 2

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Jonas, did you ever write to whatwg about not firing popstate onload?  I see history.state in the spec, but not the onload business.

Comment 3

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

I did write to get the spec changed. However it appears that hixie missed parts of it if the spec still calls for popstate to fire "during onload".

Comment 4

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Well, as I read it, it says to unconditionally fire popstate when traversing the history to a specified entry.

Comment 5

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

I filed http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12707